A while ago (asked Sep 18 at 14:34) I asked a question on StackOverflow. I'm pretty sure I could have found the answer via Google myself but it is so much eaasier to ask someone else to do the work for me and perhaps come up with the better answer.

The question was.

Why can’t string be mutable in java and .net

Why is it that they decided ...

I guess if you heard of this site then you must have heard about StackOverflow. StackOverflow was(is) made by the very popular blogger http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/. Since the arrival of StackOverflow there have been a few people that stick out in the helping out department over there. One of these people is Jon Skeet. The man wrote a book so he is already famous ;-). But now he finds himself on the top of the list at StackOverflow. And he wrote a blogpost abou...